Just like last year, the Dodgers will open their 2025 season overseas, with a two-game series against the Cubs in Tokyo in mid-March. In 2024, they got a hero’s welcome in Seoul ahead of their series against the Padres, but Tokyo will be an entirely different animal.

There’s a frenzy for baseball in Japan, and even more so, in particular, for Shohei Ohtani, whose superstardom in his home country cannot be overstated. Japanese fans would’ve clamored to see Ohtani play if he was the only Japanese-born member of either team, but now that the Dodgers have Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki, and the Cubs have Shota Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki? The entire country very well might be tuning into these games.

If any American fans are looking to make the trip overseas but haven’t gotten tickets yet, they might be totally out of luck. The Dodgers did release a limited number to season ticket holders, but those sold out in a flash and then started popping up on resale platforms. As of Jan. 28 on StubHub, tickets for the first game ranged from $2,080 to $18,011, and $1,600 to over $19,000 for the second.

As of Feb. 7, the opener will run fans anywhere from $2,454 to $19,831, and the finale $1,692 to $20,822.

Tickets to Dodgers-Cubs Tokyo Series exceed $21,000 on the resale market

This completely blows the price of resale tickets for the Seoul Series and even the World Series out of the water. The maximum price for a single ticket to one of the games in Seoul stabilized around $1,500, while the World Series had it beat around $8,500. Nearly $21,000 for a single ticket is unprecedented.

While MLB won’t be making a dime off of those resale tickets, it’s likely that they’re still salivating over the level of excitement the Tokyo Series is creating overseas. More and more international talent comes over to States every year, and the Dodgers very well may be the epicenter of it all. Even if baseball never picks up much traction in Europe, talent, fans, and money are basically guaranteed to come out of Asia.

These games probably won’t be ones to miss, either. The Dodgers are the Dodgers, with their nearly 25% odds of winning the World Series before the season’s even started, but the Cubs are also on the rise after putting together a very nice offseason.

If you can’t afford a $21,000 seat (we definitely can’t), you’ll have to wake up early (or stay up late) to catch the games on TV, which air at 2 AM PST on March 18 and 19.